All things you need to know about living in Tornolo
Tornolo, in the province of Parma, is home to 4 Americans: 0.46% of its 868 residents.
ISTAT counts 37 residents with a foreign citizenship in Tornolo, 4.26% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Americans (4), Britons (3), Dutch nationals (2).
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Parma scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for hospital beds in high-care wards and average disposable income per capita.
It scores in the bottom quarter for burglaries reported.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 24.2°C (76°F) and winters a low of 2.6°C (37°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Tornolo sees about 0 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,459mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 160 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Tornolo at about €362 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
That is below most Italian comuni.
Between 2019 and 2025, the number of Americans in Tornolo rose from 2 to 4.
ISTAT's census data puts 9.1% of Tornolo's population as born outside Italy: 7.0% outside the EU and 2.1% elsewhere in the EU. ISTAT does not publish this by specific country at comune level, so it does not line up with the citizenship figures above.
Tornolo population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 9 | 1.04% |
| United States | 4 | 0.46% |
| Albania | 3 | 0.35% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 0.35% |
| Latvia | 2 | 0.23% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 0.23% |
| Austria | 1 | 0.12% |
| Brazil | 1 | 0.12% |
| Spain | 1 | 0.12% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Germany | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| France | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Lithuania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Poland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Russia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ukraine | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 789 | 90.90% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 18 | 2.07% |
| Born outside the EU | 61 | 7.03% |
Americans over time
Quality of life in Parma
Full BES profile for Parma →Parma on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Tornolo is far below the Parma average of €1,230/m². Averaged across 4 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town. OMI records no rental figures here.
A detached house here averages €453/m², against €362 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 9% more per square meter.
OMI prices “Ville e Villini” separately from the apartments every other figure on this page describes. Nationally a house costs about 14% more per square meter, but in 450 comuni it costs less — worth checking rather than assuming.
Seismic zone
Tornolo is in seismic zone 2. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 2 as a zone where strong earthquakes are possible.
This is the legal classification the Region gave the comune, used for planning and for control of building works. It is not a forecast, and it says nothing about the building you are looking at: since the 2018 building code the design load of a new building comes from site-specific hazard, not from the zone. Have any specific property checked by a qualified engineer.
Not to be confused with the “seismic” routes of the 7% pensioner regime. Those turn on whether the comune was in the 2009 L’Aquila or 2016–17 central-Italy earthquake areas, not on its zone, and being in zone 1 does not make anyone eligible for that regime, or for any tax treatment.
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Nearest hospital: Ospedale 'S.Maria' Borgo Val di Taro, about 16.9 km / 20 minutes by road from Tòrnolo (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Osp. Civ. S.Antonio Pontremoli (ms) (Pronto Soccorso), about 45.4 km / 43 minutes by road from Tòrnolo (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Osp. Riuniti Leonardi e Riboli Lavagna (DEA level I), about 49.7 km / 51 minutes by road from Tòrnolo (the main town).
Nearest airport: Parma Airport (PMF), about 81.7 km / 65 minutes by road from Tòrnolo (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Carrefour Express, about 4.5 km / 7 minutes by road from Tòrnolo (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Chiappari, about 5.6 km / 6 minutes by road from Tòrnolo (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Borgo Val di Taro, about 16.7 km / 20 minutes by road from Tòrnolo (the main town).
Measured by road from the main town of the comune (its OpenStreetMap place point; the geographic center for the few comuni with none), at free-flow speeds with no traffic. It is approximate. For Tornolo, a trip from your own address can take longer or shorter. Drive the route before you rely on it, and ask the local health authority which hospital serves the town. Shops, pharmacies and stations are the nearest to the main town, not to your address.
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